Quotes About Teaching

Much that passes for education ... is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

It is a loop between church, Spirit, and Bible, and it is enough.

El currículo y los cursos deberían estar organizados no en torno a las respuestas, sino a las grandes ideas, preguntas y problemas para los que el contenido representa la respuesta.

In teaching for truly lifeworthy learning, might we hope to teach for wisdom?

Perhaps," she went on, "the biggest lesson of all is that people need to learn to put their faith in God and not in the men who have built institutions around faith or even in the institutions themselves.

Wherever the Christian faith has been found, there has been a close association with the written word of God, with books, education, and learning.

Lincoln once said that his father taught him how to work but not how to enjoy it.

Teaching has its virtues, but it is often bad for the teacher.

Teaching happens when teachers help students to think about what they are doing and learning, to ask questions, to consider new possibilities, to take seriously their own capacities to grow and learn and to develop a sense of judgment.

Improving the skills of HR colleagues. The best learners are also teachers. Investing in building the skills of HR colleagues requires individuals to be clear and disciplined about a topical area, tool, or technology.

Competencies can be communicated—and therefore can be taught and learned.

My name is Mr Bread." He began writing his name neatly on the board. "But you can call me Peter." Suddenly there was quiet, as thirty little brains whirred. "Pita Bread!" proclaimed a ginger-haired boy from the back.

Most people have no idea how to pray for you. If you want them to pray something more than, "Be with [fill in the blank] as she works with lost people in [fill in the blank]," then you need to teach them how to pray. Teaching them how to pray effectively is your responsibility.

With a doctrine-centered discipleship program, one must teach everything to ensure a person has the knowledge to be obedient. With an obedience-centered discipleship program, the emphasis is on how we can be obedient to Christ in every area of our lives and in every circumstance. When a new disciple asks a question, my answer is always the same: What must you do to be obedient to Christ? I

The very act of mentoring changes and matures the mentor as well as the mentee. This is the reason it's so important to encourage mentees to mentor others. Unless and until they mentor others, the mentoring process is of limited value.

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

Men, I had often observed, were never happier than when they believed they were imparting wisdom.

Great mentors give great advice.

The Word of God is Spirit-taught words.

What we ought to know we never be taught in the classroom.

Scott himself had taught me that in the boundless sphere of the intellect there is no prudishness, no shockability. There is only evaluation of facts, and a morality founded on truth.

God is the greatest Teacher.

I don't teach. I just show them why to learn, what to learn, how to learn, and the ultimate purpose of learning.

Teaching is the best way to learn. Never stop learning.